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 From the reign of David there, to the destruction of the city by Titus, it was 1179 years, and 2179 from the foundation of it. And those who afterwards saw it, could not believe that ever there had been such a city there; yet the despised Jews begged leave to build part of the city; but after 65 years, when they began to revolt, then Elius Adrianns the Emperor, slew many thousands of them; and when his fury was over, he took one part of the city without the wall, Mount Calvary, and Christ's sepulchre, and made a spacious city, which he called after his own name, Selia Capitolia, which was inhabited by all nations, but most by Christians, for 500 years. And in 639 it was taken by the Egyptians and Saracens, who held it 400 years, and in 1039, it was regained by Godfrey Bollogn, who being elected king, refused to be crowned with a crown of gold, where Christ was crowned with a crown of thorns.—It continued to him and his successors eighty-eight years, tiil in 1127, it was taken by Saladine, king of Egypt; and in 1517, the Turks took it, who are still masters of it, and called it, in their own language, Gunembare, or the Holy of Holies.